Events in Music
- Mar 7 Giacomo Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto" (The Crusader in Egypt) premieres at La Fenice in Venice with famous castrato Giovanni Battista Velluti singing
- Mar 24 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" in St. Petersburg
- May 7 Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th (Choral) Symphony, often regarded as his greatest work, premieres in Vienna
- Jul 30 Gioachino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris
Anton BrucknerMusicians Who Died in 1824
- Feb 1 Maria Theresia von Paradis, Austrian musician & composer, dies at 64
- Feb 22 John Davy, English composer, dies at 60
- Mar 3 Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 70
- Mar 12 Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48
- Mar 22 Johann Melchior Dreyer, German composer, dies at 76
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